I was about to say that 52 = Greengage Yellow but there's been a long standing question over the colour chart in "The Scimitar & its Forebears" so I looked in the front of the workshop manual and discovered the error:

scimjim wrote:I was about to say that 52 = Greengage Yellow but there's been a long standing question over the colour chart in "The Scimitar & its Forebears" so I looked in the front of the workshop manual and discovered the error:

5429 was the first 6b Jeff - 5486 was the last of the 30 6a that are dotted around Dec 79.
5493 was the last 6b built in 79 before all GTE production was halted for 5 months to build the first batch of 340 GTC

Mine was registered in September 79 and is chassis 5137 - which implies that Reliant made 350+ cars in the last 4 months of 1979. Looking at your figures this is probably right if they made 3908 cars in 40 months...??

Dave Watson
'79 SE6a Auto

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